supercomputers

Last fall, Los Alamos National Laboratory unveiled plans for two new supercomputers, Mission and Vision, built by HPE and powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. This summer, the first Vera CPU server arrives at Los Alamos for installation in a test bed, the result of an ongoing, rigorous codesign collaboration between Los Alamos, NVIDIA and their partners.

MIT researchers are set to contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, with 15 collaborative projects among those selected for funding under Genesis Phase I, DOE announced Wednesday. The Genesis Mission, a national initiative, intends to build “the world’s most powerful integrated science discovery platform” by incentivizing cross-sector collaborations that leverage AI, s…

Nature, Published online: 25 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02047-w The supercomputer has an innovative chip design that allows it to carry out more than 2 quintillion calculations per second.

China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics. LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world’s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides […]

A supercomputer in China now outranks its U.S. counterparts as the world’s most powerful, marking the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation’s technological prowess. The LineShine computer in Shenzhen, China, displaced top-ranked U.S. computer El Capitan in the latest version of […]

Scientific computing experts at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have selected the first nine research projects that will run on Discovery, the nation's next flagship supercomputer, slated for deployment in 2028.The projects will be developed through the Discovery Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program at ORNL's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Fa…

2026 marks 40 years of PSC. As we continue on with cutting-edge innovation, we look back on four decades of history in computing, education, and groundbreaking research--and the people who made it happen.

The supercomputers Helma and Alex housed at FAU are among the most powerful computers in the world. Petra Imhof and Gerhard Wellein support research groups from all over Germany in harnessing this concentrated computing power for scientific projects. The room is bathed in pale neon light, and a loud humming makes conversation almost impossible. The […]

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s JUPITER — Europe’s first exascale supercomputer — is officially live.

Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, LRZ, is gaining a new supercomputer that delivers roughly 30x more computing power compared with SuperMUC-NG, the current LRZ high-performance computer. It’s called Blue Lion. And it will run on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin architecture. That’s new. Until now, LRZ — part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, Germany’s leading HPC […]

The Center for National High-Performance Computing at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (NHR@FAU) has ordered the installation of two supercomputers. With the new high tech devices, the NHR location in northern Bavaria is continuing to grow, providing researchers from the whole of Germany with even more performance capacity. Two new powerhouses are waiting in the wings: On Decembe…

Data experts, technology suppliers and policymakers have gathered to celebrate the power and future of supercomputing in Wales.

Supercomputers Alex and Fritz at the Erlangen National High-Performance Computing Center (NHR @ FAU) are among the world’s fastest (TOP500) and most energy-efficient systems (Green500) in current rankings. Alex secured 184th place and Fritz achieved 323rd place in the TOP500. The dynamic duo are part of a parallel cluster that consists of two modules: Alex […]